The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 53
In this way my cousin and I became very intimate, and were much attached to each other.
Who acts: cousin · What happens: become, attach · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 I | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cousin | conj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 intimate | advmod |
| 10 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 attached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 attached | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 attached | aux:pass |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 attached | advmod |
| 15 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 attached | obl |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | my cousin | in this way result; intimate property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Result | ||||
| 2 | attach | past · passive | my cousin not said here | to each | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: to each=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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